Robert Horne (bishop)

Robert Horne (born 1510s; died 1579 [Ralph Houlbrooke, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13792 ‘Horne, Robert (1513x15–1579)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008] ) was an English churchman, and a leading reforming Protestant. One of the Marian exiles [ [http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/apparatus/person_glossaryH.html John Foxe's Book of Martyrs ] ] , he was subsequently bishop of Winchester from 1560 to 1580 [ [http://www.cityofwinchester.co.uk/cathedral/bishops/bishops.html Bishops of Winchester Cathedral ] ] .

He was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge in 1537"Concise Dictionary of National Biography"] . He was Dean of Durham 1551 to 1553, and again 1559 to 1560 [ [http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/bishops_of_durham.htm Bishops, Priors and Deans of Durham ] ] . During his time as Dean he was responsible for removing ornamentation from Durham Cathedral [ [http://wso.williams.edu/~dredmond/cathedrals/durham/ Durham Cathedral ] ] . He was somewhat isolated.

In exile, he was at Zurich, Frankfurt and Strasburgd] . He wrote additional material for a book of homilies by Jean Calvin (1553) [1973 facsimile reprint, Certaine homilies: With an apologie of Robert Horne, ISBN-10: 9022105768, ISBN-13: 978-9022105764.] .

With Thomas Beccon, John Jewel and Edwin Sandys , he was one of the commissioners of 1559, enforcing the Injunctions of Elizabeth I of England from July of that year. [Eamon Duffy, "The Stripping of the Altars" (1992), pp. 568-9.]

In controversy with John Feckenham, he wrote in 1566 on the issues of medieval church and state relations. He was then attacked by Thomas Stapleton, for his reliance on the history of the Papacy to be found in Bartolomeo Platina [ [http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/apparatus/freemanStPeterpart1.html John Foxe's Book of Martyrs ] ] .

He was one of the Bishops' Bible translators (1568), responsible for the "Book of Isaiah", "Book of Jeremiah", and "Book of Lamentations"d] .

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